Senior Product Manager - Order Realization

Bol.Com B.V.; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

bol.com B.V. is seeking a Senior Product Manager Order Realization to shape how orders are sourced, shipped, bundled, cancelled and fulfilled across bol’s logistics network.

You’ll balance customer experience, cost, capacity and operational reliability to drive measurable impact. You’ll work with engineers, analysts and process engineers to define the future of a strategic logistics capability, owning the product strategy and roadmap and translating complex challenges into clear direction and

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Management within a complex technology environment.
• Track record of leading strategic product initiatives across domains.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers, data scientists and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Order Realization.
• Lead discovery and delivery across sourcing, fulfilment, capacity utilisation and logistics cost reduction.
• Partner with stakeholders across Logistics, Consumer & Partner Journey, Warehousing and Capacity Planning.
• Drive initiatives that improve order sourcing qualities that shoppers experience for every order.
• Guide the team in balancing short-term business outcomes with long-term platform investments.

Job description

Senior Product Manager - Order Realization

By ensuring that millions of customer orders are realized in the smartest possible way.

Every day, bol decides how customer orders are fulfilled across warehouses, partners, carriers and fulfillment networks. The Order Realization team turns those orders into executable fulfillment instructions, balancing customer experience, cost, capacity and operational reliability.

As Senior Product Manager Order Realization, you’ll shape how orders are sourced, shipped, bundled, cancelled and fulfilled. Your work will improve the delivery experience for millions of customers while unlocking efficiencies across bol’s logistics network.

The challenge is not building features, but balancing competing customer, operational and business objectives.

Where should an order be sourced? How can we use capacity efficiently, reduce logistics costs and still keep our delivery promises?

You will operate in a highly complex and important environment, that impacts Logistics, Warehouse operations, Capacity Planning and the (logistical) Customer Experience. Success requires strategic thinking, strong stakeholder management and the ability to translate complex operational challenges into clear product direction.

What you'll do as Senior Product Manager Order Realization

You’ll work with engineers, analysts, logistical process engineers and your Engineering Manager to define the future of a strategically important logistics capability.

You will:

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Order Realization.
• Lead discovery and delivery across sourcing, fulfilment, capacity utilisation and logistics cost reduction.
• Partner with stakeholders across Logistics, Consumer & Partner Journey, Warehousing and Capacity Planning.
• Drive initiatives that improve order sourcing qualities that our shoppers experience for every order. This includes timely fulfilment, efficient picking and packing, preventing impact of operational hiccups, at the lowest cost in a scalable way
• Guide the team in balancing short-term business outcomes with long-term platform investments.

You combine strategic product thinking with analytical rigour and can translate technical trade-offs into clear product direction.

You likely bring:

• Experience in Product Management within a complex technology environment.
• A track record of leading strategic product initiatives across domains.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using data to drive product decisions.
• The ability to work effectively with engineers, data specialists and business stakeholders.
• Experience balancing customer value, operational impact and business outcomes.

• Clear strategy You enjoy turning complex logistical challenges into a clear product strategy.
• Connecting the dots You naturally connect customer value, operational reality and business impact
• You are in for trading You thrive on aligning teams and stakeholders around difficult cross-domain trade-offs

• Only way is clarity You prefer a clearly defined product area with straightforward user journeys and quick wins
• Quality nah, delivery yay Can't handle the heat of a business critical product with high quality standards
• My team my way You are most comfortable working within one team instead of influencing multiple domains and stakeholders

You’ll join the Order Realization team within Core Logistics, at the heart of bol’s Order Flow domain. You’ll combine strategy with execution, explore cross-team problems and make trade-offs transparent. With autonomy to shape product direction, you’ll work alongside colleagues committed to reliable logistics, technical quality and measurable customer and business impact.